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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785458403321

Autore

Bernstein Shana

Titolo

Bridges of reform [[electronic resource] ] : interracial civil rights activism in twentieth-century Los Angeles / / Shana Bernstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-977972-4

1-282-94499-1

9786612944994

0-19-971589-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 339 p. ) : ill., map

Disciplina

979.4/94053

Soggetti

Civil rights movements - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Community life - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Cultural pluralism - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations History 20th century

Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION; 1. Chapter 1: Los Angeles, the Early Days; 2. Chapter 2: Shadows of War, Forces for Change; 3. Chapter 3: The War Comes Home; 4. Chapter 4, Cold Warriors of a Different Stripe; 5. Chapter 5: The Community Service Organization and Interracial Civil Rights Activism in the Cold War Era; 6. Chapter 6: Los Angeles to the Nation; CONCLUSION

Sommario/riassunto

This title uncovers the early years of civil rights and the sophisticated ways it played out on the West Coast, a situation that radically differed from civil rights in the South and North.